Noel Zahler, head of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music, will have his composition "for violin and piano" performed tomorrow Thursday evening, at 8 p.m., by guests artists Wolfgang David and David Gompper in Kresge Recital Hall.
"For violin and piano" was commissioned by Wolfgang David and David Gompper. It was written for them and is dedicated to Wolfgang David and David Gompper.
It is a work in three major parts that moves in the traditional fast, slow, fast pattern. Its material is minimal. It revolves around a motive composed of a half step and a tritone. Almost all the material in the work is derived from that motive. The speed of each of the sections is linked to the kind of exploration entailed in that part of the work.
The first section is performed very fast because it is highly redundant. This is a lesson Zahler learned from studying the scores of Haydn many years ago; fast music moves very slow harmonically and slow music moves very fast harmonically.
The second section plays with the ability to merge these two very different instruments, violin and piano, into one constantly changing kaleidoscope of sound.
The third section is very much like the first. In fact, it is a reworking of the first section in reverse order with the violin and piano parts exchanged. "If I had to find a visual analogy for the composition, I'd compare it to a Mbius strip, a non-orientable flat strip of paper that, as a result of a half twist, has only one side and one edge," said Zahler. It was discovered independently by the German
No matter how you slice this composition, one aspect is certain, it is a technical "tour de force" for its performers. All their gifts are exposed and this is what the work was meant to do, show the very highly skilled musicians, technically and interpretively, who are Wolfgang David and David Gompper. For more information call 412-268-2383.
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The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University presents TRANSIT 2008, an exhibition that opens with a reception on Friday, Feb. 29 from 5 to 8 p.m. and runs through March 9. TRANSIT 2008 is part of an eleven-year exchange between the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon and Kyoto University of Art & Design, Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design (NZU) and Tokyo Zokei University.
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Book Signing with Charlee Brodsky, faculty in the School of Design Saturday, March 1, 3:00 5:00 p.m.
Please join the gallery to launch I Thought I Could Fly... Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair, a book and exhibition, which takes the audience into the darkened lives of those who live with mental illness. On view now through March 15, 2008 in the Silver Eye New Works Gallery are these photographs by Charlee Brodsky of Pittsburgh, PA and Hope, HIV and Africa by Steve Simon of New York, NY. This book signing is open to all so please join us and tell your friends. Charlee will be giving one small print to everyone that purchases or orders her book. Admission is free. Click here
Charlee Brodsky, editor and photographer of the volume, is a fine art, documentary photographer and a professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University. She has won numerous awards, including an Emmy for her work on Stephanie, the story of her friends life with breast cancer. ___________________
Sounds from the Quiet Axis: An evening of music-sounds from the Quiet Axis
Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 6:30 - 8 p.m. THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART FORUM GALLERY
Upon the worlds rim twists a garland round That flaming harvests such sounds down This garden woolly glows
This unique chamber concert in the Forum Gallery of the Carnegie Museum of Art is the presentation of sound and musical compositions expressing the sonic intensity within to the major Aspects of the Quiet Axis presented in the large paintings in the Forum Gallery - sound imbedded in vision and vision in sound.
The evening will be the world premier of Andrew Kaisers String Quartet Along these Lines by the School of Musics Starling Quartet. Other original compositions by Andrew Kaiser, Vashti Germaine and Deep Space Signaling Group will be presented.
The issues of synaesthesia and the compositions will be discussed in this unique event.
Since its inception, the Starling Quartet has served as the flagship ensemble of the Carnegie Mellon string program. The Starling String Quartet was established at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music in 2002 with a generous grant from the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation. ___________________
As Mister Rogers would say, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"
Well, on Mar 20 you can be a good neighbor and wear a sweater in honor of Mister Rogers' 80th birthday.
So you can't say I didnt get the memo about the sweater, here's the memo (via youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVeyLr2fGNA.
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